Holocene record of precipitation seasonality from lake calcite δ18O in the central Rocky Mountains, United States

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-214

  Anderson, Lesleigh ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORADO RIVER BASIN; DROUGHT PERIODS; HEAD WATERS; HOLOCENES; HYDROCLIMATIC; LAKE WATERS; LATE HOLOCENE; NORTH PACIFIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PRIMARY WATER; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENTARY CALCITE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME-SCALES; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION; WATERSHED DISCHARGES; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATERSHEDS;

RAIN;

CALCITE; HOLOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENTATION; WATER BUDGET;

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CARBONATES; ISOTOPES; LAKES; METEOROLOGY; MINERALS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RAIN; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SEDIMENTS; WATER SHEDS;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

BISON;

EID: 79951718491     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31575.1     Document Type: Article

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